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Great Lives series - BBC radio

FreddyHeadey 28 Nov 22 - 07:51 AM
Stilly River Sage 28 Nov 22 - 10:24 AM
Bonnie Shaljean 28 Nov 22 - 12:02 PM
Rain Dog 28 Nov 22 - 12:54 PM
GUEST,Be3achcomber 16 Dec 22 - 02:09 PM
Joe Offer 17 Dec 22 - 01:01 PM
FreddyHeadey 13 Jan 25 - 06:27 PM
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GUEST,CJB 13 Jan 25 - 11:28 PM
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Subject: Great Lives series - BBC radio
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 28 Nov 22 - 07:51 AM

! So many pages and too difficult to define a folk genre so I've included any I spotted with a musical connection.

Here are the ones I'd bookmarked but do check for any I've missed:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qxsb/episodes/




Louis Armstrong
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04dyk53

Josephine Baker
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b2jg2w

Lionel Bart
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b088fg46

Sir Thomas Beecham
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00js9g1

Captain Beefheart
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09xjx30

Chuck Berry
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001g8sz

James Brown
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04d4n8b

Jeff Buckley
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06wd26b

David Bowie
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bcgt9x

Ferruccio Busoni
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0004l97

John Cage
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007xmd1

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00glwsr

John Coltrane
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00k8t3z

Noel Coward (Julian Clary 2006)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00glwcm

Noel Coward (Peter Bazalgette 2003)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0076h63

Ian Curtis
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00b4wty

Ivor Cutler
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000vghy

Miles Davis
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09z4k9z

Sammy Davis Jr
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wr8pq

Delia Derbyshire
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000rcpn

Lonnie Donegan
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018xs8c
(Mudcat https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=169762)

Jacqueline Du Pre
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03zb4bd

Ian Dury
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0076j0c

Edward Elgar
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0076p53

Brian Epstein
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00050r0

Kenny Everett
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rvppq

Kathleen Ferrier
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b010fd93

Gracie Fields
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07m5ny0

Ella Fitzgerald
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00glwbn

Judy Garland
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0017thf

Marvin Gaye
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0076nys

Gilbert and Sullivan
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0076ngt

Hildegard Von Bingen   
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b014q00c

Billie Holiday
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0079n8m

Herbert Howells
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0007bd2

Fela Kuti
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0383yt5

John Lennon   
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t7307

Alan Lomax (Shirley Collins - 2019)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00057n4
(Mudcat https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=166138)

Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03s718g

Ewan MacColl
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000zdqv

Kirsty MacColl
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01322dk

Malcolm McLaren
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wdgxd

Bob Marley
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0076ds8

Yehudi Menuhin
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000ykqp
(Mudcat https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=170221)

Freddie Mercury
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000256j

Thelonious Monk
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b069rvbl
(Mudcat https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=168828)

Jim Morrison
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000h0gb

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00glx0b

Elvis Presley
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007vzrt

Prince
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0008hx2

Henry Purcell
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b043x48v

Rachmaninov   
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0076dls

Johnny Ramone
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0012ft5

Franz Schubert
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04c0rjb

Gil Scott-Heron
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0016xjy

Ravi Shankar   
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001b41j

Nina Simone
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00gj86h

Frank Sinatra
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00k3zns

Elliott Smith
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000vwsm

Vivian Stanshall   
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pcklz

Joe Strummer
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007766p

Donna Summer
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000m0bl

Tchaikovsky
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0076l2c

Jake Thackray
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b042jhlm
(Mudcat https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=168877)

Hank Williams
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03kqfzz

Ralph Vaughan Williams
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pfxj3

Tony Wilson   
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0017482

Victoria Wood
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000hvlh




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Subject: RE: Great Lives series - BBC radio
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Nov 22 - 10:24 AM

Nice work! That took a while to assemble!


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Subject: RE: Great Lives series - BBC radio
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 28 Nov 22 - 12:02 PM

Cheers Freddy! I love that progremme -


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Subject: RE: Great Lives series - BBC radio
From: Rain Dog
Date: 28 Nov 22 - 12:54 PM

Thanks for taking the time to provide those links.


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Subject: RE: Great Lives series - BBC radio
From: GUEST,Be3achcomber
Date: 16 Dec 22 - 02:09 PM

Just listened to Peggy Seeger on Ewan MacColl, terrific !


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Subject: RE: Great Lives series - BBC radio
From: Joe Offer
Date: 17 Dec 22 - 01:01 PM

And the links work in the US. We can't get access to some offerings from BBC here.


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Subject: RE: Great Lives series - BBC radio
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 13 Jan 25 - 06:27 PM

2023-2024

Harry Belafonte - 2024
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001v3jw

Maria Callas - 2024
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001zdf1

Kurt Cobain - 2023
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001h60k

Alan 'Fluff' Freeman - 2024
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001vl9g

John Gay - 2023
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001m4s1

Terry Hall - 2023
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001lyv0

Gerard Hoffnung - 2024
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001xwrw

Eartha Kitt - 2023
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001tqfg

Jessye Norman - 2023
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001qmcy

Bessie Smith - 2024
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0022std

Gerrard Winstanley
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001qtc5

Frank Zappa
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001l97r


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Subject: RE: Great Lives series - BBC radio
From: GUEST,Steve Shaw
Date: 13 Jan 25 - 08:48 PM

It's an excellent series indeed. I've heard lots of them, but cheers for the list which contains a few that passed me by. Not any more!


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Subject: RE: Great Lives series - BBC radio
From: GUEST,CJB
Date: 13 Jan 25 - 11:28 PM

Peggy Seeger on Ewan MacColl …

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000zdqv


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Subject: RE: Great Lives series - BBC radio
From: Vincent Jones
Date: 14 Jan 25 - 08:50 AM

Jude Kelly's choice of Lilian Baylis is worth hearing. Baylis started or revived organisations that were the forerunners of the English National Opera, the Royal Ballet and the National Theatre and did much to improve the cultural life of the working people of South London. An extraordinary woman.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007vjkd


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